page_title: CP2 (classification)
section_title: Classification process
hierarchical_section_title: CP2 (classification) / Classification process
caption_attribution_description: English: A variant of a bench test form used to classify people in disability sports derived from about 10 versions from different sports and created by various entities including the US government.
context_page_description: CP2 is a disability sport classification specific to cerebral palsy. In many sports, it is grouped inside other classifications to allow people with cerebral palsy to compete against people with other different disabilities but the same level of functionality. People in this class tend to use electric wheelchairs and are quadriplegic. CP2 competitors have better upper body control when compared to CP1.
  Elite sports open to CP2 classified athletes include athletics, boccia, cycling, race running, slalom, swimming, lawn bowls and archery. In some of these sports, different classification systems or names for CP2 are used. When they go through classification, CP2 people need to use a wheelchair.
context_section_description: The process for being classified is often sports specific.  As a general rule, CP2 sportspeople need to attend classification in a wheelchair.  Failure to do so could result in them being classified as an ambulatory CP class competitor such as CP5 or CP6, or a related sport specific class.
  One of the standard means of assessing functional classification is the bench test, which is used in swimming, lawn bowls and wheelchair fencing. Using the Adapted Research Council (MRC) measurements, muscle strength is tested using the bench press for a variety of disabilities a muscle being assessed on a scale of 1 to 5 for people with cerebral palsy and other issues with muscle spasticity. A 1 is for no functional movement of the muscle or where there is no motor coordination.  A 2 is for normal muscle movement range not exceeding 25% or where the movement can only take place with great difficult and, even then, very slowly.  A 3 is where normal muscle movement range does not exceed 50%.  A 4 is when  normal muscle movement range does not exceed 75% and or there is slight in-coordination of muscle movement.  A 5 is for normal muscle movement.
  Swimming classification for CP2 swimmers generally has three components.  The first is a bench press.  The second is water test.  The third is in competition observation.  As part of the water test, swimmers are often required to demonstrate their swimming technique for all four strokes.  They usually swim a distance of 25 meters for each stroke.  They are also generally required to demonstrate how they enter the water and how they turn in the pool.
caption: A standard  bench press form used to for functional classification for wheelchair sportspeople.
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